Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, Vice-President of the Executive Council, Minister for Arts and Attorney-General) (14:30): I am bound to say, Senator Gallacher, that, unlike your party, we are actually going to build a submarine. For the six years your party was in power you allowed a capability gap to develop, which has— Senator Moore: Mr President, I rise on a point of order on direct relevance to the question. The question was clearly about the decision to not include Sweden in the process. That was the only issue in the question. The PRESIDENT: I inform the minister that he has 44 seconds left in which to answer the question, and I remind him of the question. Senator BRANDIS: Senator Gallacher, no final decision has been made in relation to this matter. But I can assure you that when an international partner is chosen to partner with Australian industry to build the next generation Australian submarine it will be the international partner which is best placed to meet the criteria which the government has specified. That international partner will be chosen through the competitive evaluation process that we have been explaining to you for some weeks now, and Australia's national interest will be the first and last consideration.